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A meeting between Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Winston Churchill (Great Britian), and Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States) in February1945 in which they decided to divide Germany into zimes of occupation controlled by Allied military forces after World War II, and Germany would have to pay the Soviet Union for its loss of life and property. In return, Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan.
Yalta Conference
and international peace keeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
United Nations
the branch of the United Nations that has the power to investigate and settle disputes between its members
Security Council
Name the 5 permanent members of the U.N.
Britian, China, France, the United States, the Soviet Union
Stalin ignored the agreement made in the Yalta to allow free elections in Eastern Europe, and installed Communist governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia. These countries formed a buffer between the Soviet Union and Western Europe.
Satellite Nations
during the Cold War, te boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
Iron Curtain
a U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
Containment
announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
Truman Doctrine
a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II
Marshall Plan
In 1948 the Soviet Union cut off highway, water, and rail traffic into Berlin's western zones. The city faced starvation due to the blockade. For 11 months American and British officials flew food, fuel, and medicine into Berlin.
Berlin Airlift
the state of dimplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II
Cold War
the North Atlantic Treaty Organizationa defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada
NATO
a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
Warsaw Pact
a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression
brinkmanship
the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane and the capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
U-2 Incident
The leader of the Communists in the Civil War in China between 1946 and 1949. The Communists gained control of China in 1949 and named itself the People's Republic of China, and he ruled as both the chairman of the Communist party and the head of state. Under his reign, China expanded into Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and India, and he introduced an economic five-year plan that wet high production targets for industry and agriculture called the "Great Leap Forward."
Mao Zedong
The leader of the Nationalist forces in the Civil War in China between 1946 and 1949. The Nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan, and received help from the United States in establishing the government of Nationalist China.
Jiang Jieshi
in Communist China, a collecive farm on which a great number of people work and live together
communes
milita units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution
Red Guards
a 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
Cultural Revolution
the dividing line between the Communist industrial north (when the Japanese surrendered to the Soviets), and the non-Communist south (when the Japanese surrendered to the Americans) in Korea following World War II
38th parallel
The leader of a 15 nation United Nation force that was sent to South Korea to prevent its invasion by the North Korean Communists (1950-1952). When Communist China aided the North Koreans, he wanted to use atomic weapons against Chinese cities, and this disagreement with President Truman led to his dismissal.
Douglas MacArthur
Leader of Vietnamese nationalists that fought the French for independence from the 1930s to the 1950s, and established the Indochinese Communist party. He later led the Vietcong against the anti-Communist government of Ngo Ding Diem and U.S. intervention into South Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
the idea that if one nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
Domino Theory
the leader of an anti-Communist government established by France and the United States in South Vietnam. His governments corruption led to his overthrow and assassination in 1963
Ngo Dinh Diem
a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
Vietcong
President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces
Vietnamization
a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975
Khmer Rouge